λοβός

Ancient Greek

Uncertain, though perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”), and cognate with Proto-Germanic *lappaz (“flap, lobe”) (whence German Lappen).^[1]

λοβός • (lobós) m (genitive λοβοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ὁ λοβός; τοῦ λοβοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λοβός ho lobós	τὼ λοβώ tṑ lobṓ	οἱ λοβοί hoi loboí
Genitive	τοῦ λοβοῦ toû loboû	τοῖν λοβοῖν toîn loboîn	τῶν λοβῶν tôn lobôn
Dative	τῷ λοβῷ tōî lobōî	τοῖν λοβοῖν toîn loboîn	τοῖς λοβοῖς toîs loboîs
Accusative	τὸν λοβόν tòn lobón	τὼ λοβώ tṑ lobṓ	τοὺς λοβούς toùs loboús
Vocative	λοβέ lobé	λοβώ lobṓ	λοβοί loboí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λοβός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 867-8

From Ancient Greek λοβός m (lobós), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to hang loosely”).

λοβός • (lovós) m (plural λοβοί)